Kaiser: Kinder Morgan Shares Are Worth Less Than $10 | $KMI

Editor's Note: Below is an excerpt from a note written last night by Hedgeye Energy analyst Kevin Kaiser to institutional subscribers. For the record, Kinder Morgan (KMI) has fallen another 7.5% today.

"The market has suddenly come to appreciate many of the risks and issues with Kinder Morgan, Inc. (KMI) that we have discussed for more than two years. KMI was down 30% last week and is now down 60% YTD on heightened concerns surrounding its debt leverage, dividend sustainability, business model, and valuation. And because KMI is a bellwether in the North American midstream sector, the recent declines of its stock and bond prices are reverberating through its peer group, as evidenced by the Alerian MLP Index falling 11% last week.

While some investors will be tempted to catch the KMI falling knife, we continue to strongly advise against it. In our view, there is still substantial downside to fair value, which we believe is less than $10/share.

We will host a conference call presentation this Friday, December 11th at 11am EST to discuss the latest KMI developments and give our updated views on KMI’s businesses, financials, and valuation."

Casual Dining and Quick Service stocks that we follow outperformed the XLY, last week, which was down -0.3%. Top performers on a relative basis from casual dining were DFRG and BWLD posting increases of +2.2% and +1.1%, respectively, while YUM and PNRA led the quick service group this week up +4.7% and +2.3%, respectively.

XLY VERSUS THE MARKET

QUANTITATIVE SETUP

From a quantitative perspective, the XLY looks BULLISH from a TRADE and TREND perspective, TREND support is 78.42.

CASUAL DINING RESTAURANTS

QUICK SERVICE RESTAURANTS

COMMODITIES

Keith’s Three Morning Bullets

In rate of change terms, at 1.88% y/y that was the slowest NFP print since the cycle peaked in Q1, but the Fed is going to hike on that:

EURO – that’s why I signaled buy USD on last week’s Euro ramp of +2.7% - it’s back down -0.6% this morning to $1.08 and has no immediate-term support to $1.05; the data doesn’t matter to the Fed – the SP500 does

OIL – #StrongDollar (rate hike catalyst DEC 16th) driven #Deflation Risk definitely matters to most asset classes – after a -3.8% decline last week, Oil is down another -1.1% this morning to $39.53 and the Commodities complex remains in crash mode

EM – Japanese Equities +1% on the Dollar Up move overnight – EM Asia continued lower (no likey Up Dollar); Thailand -0.7% (-6.4% in the last month is one of the ugliest); EM (MSCI Index) deflated another -0.9% last wk to -14.3% YTD

SPX immediate-term risk range = 2057-2112; UST 10yr Yield 2.19-2.33%

Please call or e-mail with any questions.

Howard Penney

Managing Director

Shayne Laidlaw

Analyst

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Hedgeye Statistics

The total percentage of successful long and short trading signals since the inception of Real-Time Alerts in August of 2008.

Food and organic stocks that we follow underperformed the XLP last week. The XLP was up +1.0% last week, the top performers on a relative basis from our list was Hormel (HRL) and Lifeway (LWAY) posting increases of +2.5% and +1.0%, respectively. The worst performing companies on a relative basis on our list were Amira Natural Foods (ANFI) and Flowers Foods (FLO), which were down -22.6% and -8.1%, respectively.

XLP VERSUS THE MARKET

QUANTITATIVE SETUP

From a quantitative perspective, the XLP is BULLISH in the TRADE and TREND duration.

Food and Organic Companies

Keith’s Three Morning Bullets

In rate of change terms, at 1.88% y/y that was the slowest NFP print since the cycle peaked in Q1, but the Fed is going to hike on that:

EURO – that’s why I signaled buy USD on last week’s Euro ramp of +2.7% - it’s back down -0.6% this morning to $1.08 and has no immediate-term support to $1.05; the data doesn’t matter to the Fed – the SP500 does

OIL – #StrongDollar (rate hike catalyst DEC 16th) driven #Deflation Risk definitely matters to most asset classes – after a -3.8% decline last week, Oil is down another -1.1% this morning to $39.53 and the Commodities complex remains in crash mode

EM – Japanese Equities +1% on the Dollar Up move overnight – EM Asia continued lower (no likey Up Dollar); Thailand -0.7% (-6.4% in the last month is one of the ugliest); EM (MSCI Index) deflated another -0.9% last wk to -14.3% YTD

SPX immediate-term risk range = 2057-2112; UST 10yr Yield 2.19-2.33%

Please call or e-mail with any questions.

Howard Penney

Managing Director

Shayne Laidlaw

Analyst

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12/07/15 09:22 AM EST

Retail Callouts (12/7) | KSS Credit Income

Takeaway:KSS Credit Income = The only number we really care about from 10Q. Poses significant risk to earnings, transcending the credit cycle.

KSS - Credit Income

Kohl's released its 10-Q after the close on Friday, giving us a look at the only number we really care about -- KSS' Credit Income -- which is up only $2mm over last year and is leveling off on the margin. We outlined in a note on 11/10 (KSS | Here’s Why KSS Is Expensive) why this line item transcends the credit cycle, and poses significant risk for KSS earnings -- even if top line growth stays in tact. The crux is that KSS is more fully-penetrated in its core customer than perhaps any other major retailer at 75%. Credit Card companies will no longer underwrite KSS' growth into an incrementally more marginal consumer base, so KSS is going solo with it's own rewards program. Our research shows that this is leading to cannibalization in credit income growth, which should result in significant SG&A deleverage in the model. By 2018, we've got KSS clocking in at $3.00, less than half of the Street at $6.25.

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MONDAY MORNING RISK MONITOR | IS THE US NET ASSET OR LIABILITY SENSITIVE?

Takeaway:Barring an asteroid strike this week, we'll finally get an answer on whether the US has a net positive or negative 1-year static gap.

Key Takeaway:

Risk measures were mixed last week with our summary table below now showing an even balance of improving/worsening factors over the intermediate term. On a short-term basis, the skew is more favorable at 5 to 1.

Clearly, the main event is the long-awaited liftoff by the Fed, catalyzed by Friday's nominally better than expected NFP report. There's some worthwhile debate over whether This Time Is Different on this rate hike, i.e. after so many years of Zero has the country moved to a position of net asset sensitivity or are we still net liabilty sensitive as we have been throughout cycles past. We know banks are asset sensitive (see Call Reports) as are savers, but will longer-term credit demand wane by enough to offset the benefits? Obviously this depends in large part on what happens to the curve. We remain of the view that the curve will flatten as it did from mid-2004 to mid-2006 when the Fed tightened 17 consecutive times raising the Fed Funds rate from 1.00% to 5.25%. During that period of tightening the 30-YR Fixed Rate Mortgage ended about where it started, at ~6%.

Areas of ongoing weakness include Chinese Steel (down another 2.7% on the week and -8.8% on the month), which is still our proxy for China's economy. Also, high yield and levered loans continue to sell off, driven at least partially by the weakness in the energy segment of the market. High yield YTM has backed up 53 bps on the month now, to 7.95%.

3. Asian Financial CDS– Two of three Chinese bank swaps tightened following the IMF's decision to make the yuan a lending-reserve currency. Also in India, two of three bank swaps tightened. Indian bank swaps were bolstered when a panel run by the Indian Finance Ministry's chief economic adviser proposed a simple 17% goods and services tax last week.

10. Euribor-OIS Spread – The Euribor-OIS spread (the difference between the euro interbank lending rate and overnight indexed swaps) measures bank counterparty risk in the Eurozone. The OIS is analogous to the effective Fed Funds rate in the United States. Banks lending at the OIS do not swap principal, so counterparty risk in the OIS is minimal. By contrast, the Euribor rate is the rate offered for unsecured interbank lending. Thus, the spread between the two isolates counterparty risk. The Euribor-OIS spread tightened by 6 bps to 10 bps.

11. Chinese Interbank Rate (Shifon Index) – The Shifon Index was unchanged over last week, ending the week at 1.79%. The Shifon Index measures banks’ overnight lending rates to one another, a gauge of systemic stress in the Chinese banking system.

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